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Editorial | Moral obligation to not create debtors' traps for poor defendants
Tacking on exorbitant court fines and fees to the criminal conviction of a homeless woman is not justice.
10/03/2016 -
Opinion: Update the Nobel Prizes
If UW's Robert Paine had been a physicist, chemist or cell biologist, he likely would have been in contention for a Nobel Prize for coining the term "keystone species."
10/03/2016 -
Our political divide makes dialogue crucial, but difficult
At a Seattle Town Hall forum with local scholars, some acknowledged polarization driven by rapid social change makes good politics difficult.
09/30/2016 -
Are We Headed Into Another Mass Extinction?
In this TED Talk, Peter Ward, paleontologist and astrobiologist at the UW, explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.
09/30/2016 | NPR -
Dance with a Spirit of Anarchy
The UW's Chamber Dance Company will perform early works by Judson Dance Theatre, October 13-16,
09/30/2016 | College of Arts & Sciences -
‘If these shackles could speak’: Charles Johnson’s powerful statement for Smithsonian Magazine feature on new African American Museum of History and Culture
Charles Johnson was asked to write a statement about an item that will be displayed in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
09/29/2016 -
KOMO 4 | Presidential debate
KOMO News interviews Matt McGarrity, principal lecturer of communication at the UW, about whether the conditions of the debate favor one candidate over the other.
09/28/2016 -
Trump could win this, UW prof says
Could Trump win? University of Washington political science professor Christopher Parker thinks he can do it, and says race is a factor.
09/28/2016 -
What we mean when we say Hillary Clinton ‘overprepared’ for the debate
After Monday's presidential debate, MSNBC's Chuck Todd critiqued the candidates' performances -- and ruffled feathers online with an unusual denunciation.
09/28/2016 -
Get smarter than the spin after the first Clinton-Trump debate
Bill Radke talks with UW associate professor Margaret O'Mara and former White House press secretary Scott McClellan about what we learned from the first presidential debate.
09/28/2016